#ILOVEFS campaign 2013 - thank you for celebrating #ilovefs

: 2013-02-21

Every year on February 14th people celebrate love,
relationship with others.. and for the third year running, the wonders of Free
Software. All around the world people expressed their love during the "I love
Free software" day. We
would like to thank you for participating, and share some lovely quotes, dents,
tweets, blog entries and articles that were done because of your dedication to
Free Software. When developers
will read your declarations, they will definitely find extra energy to carry on
their good work.

Quotes and blog entries

"[...] Whenever I'm feeling down, I take a piece of code, and make it
better, then share it with the rest of the world. Knowing that I helped make
the world turn, that I contributed to a good cause, a cause that helped me
through difficult times - that makes me say that I do love Free Software. And
so should you, because knowledge is our greatest asset, and free software helps
keeping and improving our knowledge. Cherish it, improve it, love it."

"The benefits of Free Software go beyond the individual contributors and
the communities they form. The four freedoms laid out as the foundations of
Free Software are a fanfare to the ability to exercise one’s free will, to
freely collaborate by helping your neighbors, to achieve independence from
directions other people have thought up for us. The effects can be seen all
around us – when teaching material for schools is developed collaboratively and
freely shared, when government data is opened up to improve the transparency of
the political process, when the technical foundations of the internet and the
operating systems running modern technology become a common good, and in many
other places. People start to expect similar freedoms they learned to get used
to in software when engaging in society. And more participation is always
better."